The Galla family hails from Chittoor, the native district of Naidu in Rayalaseema region.

Aruna Kumari was elected to the Andhra Pradesh assembly from Chandragiri three times and served as a minister under different chief ministers since 2004.

Jayadev, who worked as political manager to his mother, is reportedly keen to contest from Guntur constituency in coastal Andhra.

He was an aspirant for Congress ticket to contest assembly by-election from Tirupati in 2012 but the leadership refused to field him.

Aruna Kumari is the third minister of Kiran Reddy’s cabinet to join the TDP after the bill for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh was passed in parliament last month. Earlier, T. G. Venkatesh and G. Srinivasa Rao quit Congress to join TDP.